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Series 23. Semi-terete to quadrangular, petiolate, elliptical 



to orbicular. 



E. dealbala. E. cosmophylla. 



E. tereticornis. E. alba. 



E, amplifolia. E. Blakelyi. 



E. Bancrofti. E. Deanei. 

 E. pumila. 



General Appearance. — Cotyledons small to medium ; 3-0 pairs of leaves opposite, 

 broad throughout, vemulose, light green to slightly glaucous and also more or less 

 tinged with red, oblong, broadly ovate-elliptical to broad -lanceolate with a tendency 

 to orbicular in cosmophylla,, Bancrofti, and amplifolia. Stems at first semi-terete, but 

 angular in the first six species, ranging in colour from whitish to green shaded with 

 purple-brown. 



( 1 ) Hypocotyl. 

 E. dealbala. E. tereticornis, and E. amplifolia. medium. 

 E. Bancrofti, short. 

 E. cosmophylla, medium. 

 E. alba, short to medium. 

 E. Blakelyi, medium. 

 E. Deanei and E. pumila, short, 

 (lft) Hypocotyl (Miss Flockton). 



E. dealbala, terete, red, wiry (Bowning, No. 1); terete, red (Bowning, No. 2, 

 also C4renfell and Wellington) ; terete, red, spindly (Mount McDonald) ; smooth, red, 

 slightly angular (Narrabri, No. 1); pink, smooth, thickening very slightly to the root 

 (No. 2) ; terete, red, weak and spindly (Bugaldi) ; tinted pink (Warialda). 



E. tereticornis, terete, red (Outer Domain) ; red (Port Macquarie). 



E. amplifolia, terete, red (Towrang). 



E. Bancrofti. terete, red (Cooma and Wallangarra) ; terete, crimson (Stan 

 thorpe). 



E. cosmosphylla, terete, wiry, red (S.A.) ; runs abruptly into the root, slightly 

 angular, crimson (Kangaroo Island). 



E. alba, crimson, thickening into the root (Java) ; green (E. platyphylla) (Queens- 

 land). 



E. Blakelyi, smooth, terete, red (Stanthorpe) ; terete, crimson (Stanthorpe) ; 

 terete, red (Stanthorpe). 



E. Deanei, tapers into the root, crimson (Sandy Flat). 



E. pumila, terete, red (Pokolbin). 



